Make NEW Pastels from OLD scraps! Frugal Friday

Do you have pastel shards, dust, and crumbs littering your pastel trays? Today I will show you how to turn them into brand new beautiful fancy hand-rolled pastels! It's a great way to unusable scraps into awesome supplies. You can also take colors you don't like (or have too much of) and mix them with other colors to make more shades that are more useful to you. Let's get started!

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A craft dedicated Mortar and pestle: https://amzn.to/3UqTFhf or something to crush the pastels with, honestly, a rock and bowl will probably work.

Pastel scraps/dust or colors you don't like and want to mix into colors you want

A palette knife: https://amzn.to/3hyTNg5

Gum Arabic (optional) https://amzn.to/3A3E3Ih or https://shrsl.com/3sebm *Gum arabic is a binder. If you are recycling pastel scraps there will be a binder in there already which will reactivate when you add water. If you like the consistency of the pastels you are using you don't need to add gum arabic but if the pastels you are recycling are too soft and crumbly adding a couple of drops of gum arabic will make them hold together better and be less dusty. The more GA you add the harder your pastel will be.

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